{"id":1630,"date":"2010-05-03T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2015-07-07T20:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:19:01","slug":"bold-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/bold-ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold Ventures: Kathy Harris, MBA\u201985"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1632\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1632\" title=\"KathyHarris\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/2010\/05\/KathyHarris.jpg\" alt=\"Kathy Harris\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a way the timing couldn\u2019t have been worse. Just when Kathy Harris, MBA\u201985, was making the jump from an 11-year career in investment banking to a small venture capital firm specializing in Internet startups, the dot-com bubble burst. \u201cI started the exact month that everything began to unravel,\u201d she recalls. \u201cIt was fun while it lasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As uncertain as those days were, the experience gave Harris a taste for a career that she has relished ever since. Today she is a Partner at Noro-Moseley Partners (NMP), an Atlanta-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and early-growth-stage companies in the technology, health care and tech-enabled business services industries. When she\u2019s not working on the business development efforts across these industries, she\u2019s involved in NMP\u2019s health care practice, which represents half of the firm\u2019s investing activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s addictive to meet energetic entrepreneurs and see new business models on a daily basis,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re exposed to the latest and greatest technologies and health care delivery systems being introduced. And I get to dissect what works and what doesn\u2019t\u2014what makes a management team effective and what doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris credits Owen with giving her the skills to make these tough decisions. Certainly her concentration in finance has helped, but she admits her emphasis in human resources management has paid the most surprising dividends. \u201cI didn\u2019t appreciate how helpful the HR focus would be,\u201d she says. \u201cSo much of our business today is based on assessing management talent\u2014just understanding the psyche of leadership and what it takes to build and motivate a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the courses, though, she acknowledges that Owen has played an even greater role in terms of the relationships she has built. \u201cI still do business with people I met 25 years ago,\u201d she says. \u201cI think that\u2019s what the Owen network and reputation can bring to a young person just starting out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a way the timing couldn\u2019t have been worse. Just when Kathy Harris, MBA\u201985, was making the jump from an 11-year career in investment banking to a small venture capital firm specializing in Internet startups, the dot-com bubble burst. \u201cI started the exact month that everything began to unravel,\u201d she recalls. \u201cIt was fun while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,66],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-acts","category-departments","tag-spring2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8881,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/8881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}